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FREDERICK EMANUEL...
...crisis. The one was Robert J. Watt, American Workers' Delegate to the International Labor Office. To avoid further offending visitors, five paragraphs of his speech relating to "Fascistic brutality" were cut out of the printed copies distributed to the press. Czechoslovakia's official representative, wiry little Dr. Emanuel Slechta, limited himself to a deft understatement which brought down the house: "The world is in a great need of better international management...
Popular adult education has a curious affinity for numbers. Charles William Eliot struck the public fancy with his "five-foot shelf," Emanuel Haldeman-Julius makes hay with "five-cent" pamphlets, many have sold "15 easy lessons." Since last March the newest of these enterprises, the National Educational Alliance, has been offering as a short cut to learning 57 courses at 1? a lesson. By last week it had a good round number to boast about -250,000 students...
...convention moved toward adjournment last week, its outstanding leader was Alfred Emanuel Smith, four times New York's Governor. Red of nose, nasal of voice, quick of wit as ever, Al Smith had early distinguished himself as the best political infighter at the show. Almost singlehanded he wrecked a proposal for large-scale public housing, by inserting a clause forbidding the State to finance any housing program from real-estate taxes except in emergencies. With some Democratic and more Republican support, he tacked onto the judiciary article a section empowering the courts to review facts as well...
While publishers jump at almost any book about doctors, seldom have they published them as rapidly as they have the last three doctors' autobiographies: William N. MacArtney's Fifty Years a Country Doctor, Chevalier Jackson's autobiography, Arthur Emanuel Hertzler's The Horse and Buggy Doctor-the possible beginning of a trend that may yet make the late boom in foreign correspondents' memoirs look sick...